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  • Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island

    Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island - Hardcover

    Gullah Geechee Home Cooking: Recipes from the Matriarch of Edisto Island - Hardcover

    By Emily Meggett

About Emily Meggett

Emily Meggett is the 89-year-old matriarch of the Gullah community on Edisto Island, South Carolina. She has been featured on television and in print by PBS, the Food Network, Bon Appétit, Eater, and NPR. She is also a member of the family who was raised in the Point of Pines cabin, a 19th-century slave cabin from Edisto Island that has been relocated to Washington, DC, as the central exhibit of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Her website is www.motheroftheisland.com/. Meggett lives in Edisto Island, South Carolina.